"Arid reworks and extends a two-story corner building from 1951 in the Patissia district of Athens into a hybrid residential, co-living, and co-working building. The project, dubbed Veil, renovates the original fabric and adds three new floors above it, resulting in an 850-square-meter building that engages directly with its neighborhood's spatial logic. The intervention is shaped by Karamanlaki Street's characteristic morphology, where setbacks generate 'prassies,' semi-open front gardens."
"The Athens-based team at Arid improves ventilation and privacy with a double-skin facade system that allows light to filter and reflect in constantly changing ways. Movable louvers and rotating panels regulate daylight, producing shifting transparencies and a kinetic quality. As the sun moves, the appearance of Veil changes, transforming the upper floors into an almost immaterial presence hovering above the older base."
Veil renovates and extends a 1951 two-story corner building in Patissia, adding three floors to create an 850-square-meter hybrid of residential, co-living, and co-working uses. The design responds to Karamanlaki Street's setbacks and 'prassies,' carving terraces and voids to preserve openness and visual continuity. Original marble surfaces, floors, and timber window frames are retained while a new perforated aluminum envelope softens and blurs the added mass. A double-skin facade with movable louvers and rotating panels modulates light, ventilation, and privacy. Shared amenities include coworking spaces, a coliving apartment, and a communal roof garden, producing a light, layered presence above the base.
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